Gates County NcArchives Biographies.....Baker, Lawrence Simons 
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Source: Who's Who in America
Author: John W. Leonard

Baker, Lawrence Simons, 
agt. Seabord Air Line; 
b. Gatesville, NC, May 15, 1830; 
s. Dr. John & Mary (Wynns) B.; 
ed. Gatesville, NC, and Norfolk, Va.; 
grad. West Point, 1851; 
m. Salisbury, NC, March 13, 1855, Elizabeth Earl Henderson. 
Apptd. 2d Lt. USA, resigned as 1st Lt. mounted rifles, USA, 1861. 
Apptd. Col. 1st NC cav., May 20, 1861; 
brig.-gen., Aug. 1, 1863; 
severly wounded - right arm shattered, Aug. 1, 1863, at battle of Brandy 
Station; 
in command eastern dept., NC, from June, 1864, until close of Civil war. 
Address: Suffolk, Va.

Additional Comments:
Source:
Who's Who in America
A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States.
Volume 3
1903-1905
Established, 1899, by Albert Nelson Marquis
Edited by John W. Leonard
Chicago
A.N. Marquis & Company
Publishers
1903

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